The intrinsic geometry hidden inside a drawing
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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 2, 2024
The intrinsic geometry hidden inside a drawing
[? vk_artbox] pic.twitter.com/7TtiEz12EX
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 2, 2024
In YoYo Lander’s Dynamic Portraits, Layers of Stained Paper Capture Light and Shadow — from thisiscolossal.com by YoYo Lander and Grace Ebert
Step Into Beguiling Bygone Eras in Jeff Bartels’s ‘Urban Glitch’ Series — from thisiscolossal.com by Jeff Bartels and Kate Mothes
AI researcher Jim Fan has had a charmed career. He was OpenAI’s first intern before he did his PhD at Stanford with “godmother of AI,” Fei-Fei Li. He graduated into a research scientist position at Nvidia and now leads its Embodied AI “GEAR” group. The lab’s current work spans foundation models for humanoid robots to agents for virtual worlds. Jim describes a three-pronged data strategy for robotics, combining internet-scale data, simulation data and real world robot data. He believes that in the next few years it will be possible to create a “foundation agent” that can generalize across skills, embodiments and realities—both physical and virtual. He also supports Jensen Huang’s idea that “Everything that moves will eventually be autonomous.”
Runway Partners with Lionsgate — from runwayml.com via The Rundown AI
Runway and Lionsgate are partnering to explore the use of AI in film production.
Lionsgate and Runway have entered into a first-of-its-kind partnership centered around the creation and training of a new AI model, customized on Lionsgate’s proprietary catalog. Fundamentally designed to help Lionsgate Studios, its filmmakers, directors and other creative talent augment their work, the model generates cinematic video that can be further iterated using Runway’s suite of controllable tools.
Per The Rundown: Lionsgate, the film company behind The Hunger Games, John Wick, and Saw, teamed up with AI video generation company Runway to create a custom AI model trained on Lionsgate’s film catalogue.
The details:
Why it matters: As many writers, actors, and filmmakers strike against ChatGPT, Lionsgate is diving head-first into the world of generative AI through its partnership with Runway. This is one of the first major collabs between an AI startup and a major Hollywood company — and its success or failure could set precedent for years to come.
A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots — from washingtonpost.com by Pranshu Verma and Shelly Tan (behind paywall)
AI bots generate a lot of heat, and keeping their computer servers running exacts a toll.
Each prompt on ChatGPT flows through a server that runs thousands of calculations to determine the best words to use in a response.
In completing those calculations, these servers, typically housed in data centers, generate heat. Often, water systems are used to cool the equipment and keep it functioning. Water transports the heat generated in the data centers into cooling towers to help it escape the building, similar to how the human body uses sweat to keep cool, according to Shaolei Ren, an associate professor at UC Riverside.
Where electricity is cheaper, or water comparatively scarce, electricity is often used to cool these warehouses with large units resembling air-conditioners, he said. That means the amount of water and electricity an individual query requires can depend on a data center’s location and vary widely.
AI, Humans and Work: 10 Thoughts. — from rishad.substack.com by Rishad Tobaccowala
The Future Does Not Fit in the Containers of the Past. Edition 215.
10 thoughts about AI, Humans and Work in 10 minutes:
David Moreno’s Anthropomorphic Foundations Support Cascading Villages — from thisiscolossal.com by David Moreno and Kate Mothes
Callen Schaub is an abstract artist based in Montreal, Canada. He is recognized for his vibrant paintings using trapezes, pendulums, and spinning machines.
This artwork uses rotational forces to come to light.
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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 16, 2024
A Brilliant Image of the Solar Eclipse Wins the 2024 Astronomy Photographer of the Year — from thisiscolossal.com by Ryan Imperio and grace Ebert
The Adorable and the Fierce Star in the 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert
The 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition broke its 60-year record with a whopping 59,228 entries from 117 countries and territories. Hosted annually by the Natural History Museum, the contest is known for showcasing the drama, humor, and harsh realities found in every part of the globe.
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Today, I’m excited to share with you all the fruit of our effort at @OpenAI to create AI models capable of truly general reasoning: OpenAI’s new o1 model series! (aka ?) Let me explain ? 1/ pic.twitter.com/aVGAkb9kxV
— Noam Brown (@polynoamial) September 12, 2024
Introducing OpenAI o1 – from openai.com
We’ve developed a new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before they respond. Here is the latest news on o1 research, product and other updates.
The wait is over. OpenAI has just released GPT-5, now called OpenAI o1.
It brings advanced reasoning capabilities and can generate entire video games from a single prompt.
Think of it as ChatGPT evolving from fast, intuitive thinking (System-1) to deeper, more deliberate… pic.twitter.com/uAMihaUjol
— Lior? (@AlphaSignalAI) September 12, 2024
OpenAI Strawberry (o1) is out! We are finally seeing the paradigm of inference-time scaling popularized and deployed in production. As Sutton said in the Bitter Lesson, there’re only 2 techniques that scale indefinitely with compute: learning & search. It’s time to shift focus to… pic.twitter.com/jTViQucwxr
— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan) September 12, 2024
Something New: On OpenAI’s “Strawberry” and Reasoning — from oneusefulthing.org by Ethan Mollick
Solving hard problems in new ways
The new AI model, called o1-preview (why are the AI companies so bad at names?), lets the AI “think through” a problem before solving it. This lets it address very hard problems that require planning and iteration, like novel math or science questions. In fact, it can now beat human PhD experts in solving extremely hard physics problems.
To be clear, o1-preview doesn’t do everything better. It is not a better writer than GPT-4o, for example. But for tasks that require planning, the changes are quite large.
What is the point of Super Realistic AI? — from Heather Cooper who runs Visually AI on Substack
The arrival of super realistic AI image generation, powered by models like Midjourney, FLUX.1, and Ideogram, is transforming the way we create and use visual content.
Recently, many creators (myself included) have been exploring super realistic AI more and more.
But where can this actually be used?
Super realistic AI image generation will have far-reaching implications across various industries and creative fields. Its importance stems from its ability to bridge the gap between imagination and visual representation, offering multiple opportunities for innovation and efficiency.
Heather goes on to mention applications in:
NotebookLM now lets you listen to a conversation about your sources — from blog.google by Biao Wang
Our new Audio Overview feature can turn documents, slides, charts and more into engaging discussions with one click.
Today, we’re introducing Audio Overview, a new way to turn your documents into engaging audio discussions. With one click, two AI hosts start up a lively “deep dive” discussion based on your sources. They summarize your material, make connections between topics, and banter back and forth. You can even download the conversation and take it on the go.
Bringing generative AI to video with Adobe Firefly Video Model — from blog.adobe.com by Ashley Still
Over the past several months, we’ve worked closely with the video editing community to advance the Firefly Video Model. Guided by their feedback and built with creators’ rights in mind, we’re developing new workflows leveraging the model to help editors ideate and explore their creative vision, fill gaps in their timeline and add new elements to existing footage.
Just like our other Firefly generative AI models, editors can create with confidence knowing the Adobe Firefly Video Model is designed to be commercially safe and is only trained on content we have permission to use — never on Adobe users’ content.
We’re excited to share some of the incredible progress with you today — all of which is designed to be commercially safe and available in beta later this year. To be the first to hear the latest updates and get access, sign up for the waitlist here.
A third of all generative AI projects will be abandoned, says Gartner — from zdnet.com by Tiernan Ray
The high upfront cost of deployment is one of the challenges that can doom generative AI projects
Companies are “struggling” to find value in the generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) projects they have undertaken and one-third of initiatives will end up getting abandoned, according to a recent report by analyst Gartner.
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The report states at least 30% of Gen AI projects will be abandoned after the proof-of-concept stage by the end of 2025.
From DSC:
But I wouldn’t write off the other two thirds of projects that will make it. I wouldn’t write off the future of AI in our world. AI-based technologies are already massively impacting graphic design, film, media, and more creative outlets. See the tweet below for some examples of what I’m talking about.
Loopy: New Audio-to-Video Lipsyncing Model Looks Insane
It generates lifelike facial expressions and movements from audio alone. It captures subtle details like sighs, expressive eyebrows, and natural head gestures, making your videos incredibly realistic.
Sample videos
1/5… pic.twitter.com/hXclehIGc8
— el.cine (@EHuanglu) September 5, 2024
School is back in session, and so are AI art classes — from hyperallergic.com by Isa Farfan
New university programs are incorporating generative tools into studio art courses while attempting to address the murky ethics of the technology.
There’s a new addition to the course catalog at Ringling College of Art and Design, a small private art school in southwest Florida: an Artificial Intelligence Undergraduate Certificate.
The college claimed its new program is the first-of-its-kind AI certificate at an undergraduate arts institution in a news release earlier this month. Other schools in the United States offer courses and certificates focused on the integration of artificial intelligence and creative work, and educators across the country have already brought the technology into the art studio. Critics, however, say pushing AI into arts education won’t level the playing field for professional artists competing against increasingly sophisticated generative tools.
From DSC:
Though this next item is not necessarily related to AI, the following is still art and it’s very fun to watch!
Wait for the magic pic.twitter.com/peHgBHCoti
— Learn Something (@cooltechtipz) August 27, 2024